The lower your performance requirements, the more you can loosen up what kind of programmers you hire. A dev who can only use <insert high level GC'd language k

The lower your performance requirements, the more you can loosen up what kind of programmers you hire. A dev who can only use <insert high level GC'd language known for being easy to use/easy to hire for> is relatively quite cheap! The language isn't necessarily the problem, but at the very least it correlates with the problem due to pricing. The code may suck, but most companies don't care, because most clients either don't care or there's not an incentive structure in place to communicate the care back up to the corpo decision-makers.